Building a Schneider Cuckoo Clock

Building A Schneider Cuckoo Clock

The Schneider Clock Company of Schonach, Germany, has been building Cuckoo clocks since 1848. The company is still owned and operated by the same family who started that clock business more than 160 years ago. It is now operated by the 6th generation of Schneiders. When they started the business more than a century and a half ago, they worked out of Anton Schneider's farmhouse. They now operate out of a modern factory and have been at the same location since 1952. They still build clocks with the same passion that has driven the company and kept them in business for so many years.

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to watch it Cuckoo Just about everyone at some time or other has gone into a little clock shop somewhere, and marveled at a Schenider Cuckoo Clock. You may have enjoyed watching it as it did its Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo to let you know that another hour had passed. You may have watched the little dancers as the clock's music box played a little tune, or just enjoyed watching the little pendulum go back and forth, tick tocking the time away. However, most of us have not stopped to ponder just what went into creating that little Cuckoo clock. It just hung on the clock shop's wall with a little tag inviting you to
take it home with you.

The clocks are hand carved, hand built, and hand painted. Each clock is a work of art, and each little Cuckoo clock was designed with the idea of providing years of enjoyment for your family. Today we live in a throw away society. Many things are made of plastic, work on batteries, and when they quite working we throw them away. There are some exceptions and a Schneider Clock is one of them.
It is great to know that we can still purchase something today that we can enjoy for years. When we are through with it, we can pass it on to our children and they can enjoy it for years. If a Schneider clock is properly maintained there is no reason your grandkids should not be able to pass it on to their children.
The First Time I Saw A Cuckoo Clock
About 1949 I was living on an Indian Reservation in Arizona. As a child, it was a great experience during the summer to be able to visit my grandparents in California. Where my grandparents lived, they had a lawn, sidewalks, and the streets were paved. My grandparents lived next to an aunt and uncle's house so I could play with my cousin of my same age. Next door to my aunt and uncle's house lived a little old lady in a small house. Her name was Miss Summers and Miss Summers had a little garden and lots of trees in her yard. But the thing I remember most about Miss Summers was that she had a Cuckoo clock hanging on her wall. She would let me and my cousin (if we would be good) sit on the floor and wait for the little bird to come out and Cuckoo. I would have been about 5 years old at the time but I can remember sitting there and waiting for and then watching that little Cuckoo bird.
It was worth being good to get to watch the Cuckoo bird.
It was several years before I was able to get a job and have an income, but the first thing I purchased with my own money was a Cuckoo clock. That was about 50 years ago but I still have, and still love, my little Schneider Cuckoo clock. I clean and oil it ever couple years or so, but every hour the bird
comes out and Cuckoos at me to let me know what time it is.
I have a clock shop and clock museum and have been doing clock repair for most of my life. It was my love for, and my fascination with my little Cuckoo clock, that led to a love for clocks. The love for clocks led to a clock collection, and the clock collection led to a clock shop and museum. I now have a wall full of Schneider Cuckoo clocks and each one has it own personality, and each one is fascinating.
Schneider makes a Cuckoo clock that will be just perfect for your home. Find that special clock and let your family learn to love your Schneider Cuckoo, just as I have loved my little Schneider clock for so many years.